Husband II

Husband II

The one who found me

in the schoolyard by the old tree

fell to his knees with patches of burnt skin

along his pale arms. He tried a pact of suicide

with the sun, many times, but his inner ache

gave out, replaced with a potent drive for revenge.

Then through a threadbare journey where

he never allowed his passion to be quenched,

he turned from revenge

to a window where he saw heaven, sliced and untouchable

like a painting at an art show. He saw a way to find me, past

the hospital ward, past the mushroom cloud of his existence.

When he found me, I too was shut

in a sea of quicksand, waiting

on the final miracle. We smelt each other’s hair

in the openness of a winter sky.

I told him my faith was at his side. I left him

lingering by the tree – his old darkness staked and

a new one, sure to be born.

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Published in “Asian Signature, Volume 3, Issue 3” January 2016

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Published in “TwitchFit Lit Writing Zine” October 2015

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